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brunette

[broo-net] / bruˈnɛt /


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"I am returning to the big ice," the skater from Kazan announced on Telegram earlier this month, her formerly brunette hair now streaked with blonde highlights.

From Barron's Jan. 30, 2026

ChatGPT, perhaps drawing on data showing that there are far more dark-haired people in the world than blondes, decided to make her a brunette.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 6, 2025

The sketch also featured Tina Fey playing Homeland Secretary Kristi Noem with genuinely funny jokes: “I’m the rarest type of person in Washington, D.C.: A brunette that Donald Trump listens to.”

From Salon Oct. 13, 2025

Inside the car, detectives found a brunette wig and a rubber mask resembling a white male that the law enforcement source said looked realistic enough to be “movie quality.”

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2025

Maya stood out in every single photo, the one brunette in a family of redheads, her smile getting less and less full over the years.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

Taylore told me the first thing she noticed was that “he was blond,” and she normally goes for brunettes.

From Washington Post Dec. 22, 2022

“So far we’ve been able to find it for brunettes but we can’t get there for blondes and that’s the only chemical that I use. So we’re working on it.”

From Fox News Aug. 9, 2019

His penchant for brunettes - Ava Gardner, Jane Russell, Yvonne De Carlo, Linda Darnell, Faith Domergue and Jean Peters, among others - could have stymied a witness at a police lineup.

From Washington Times Dec. 4, 2018

On a half-dozen asymmetrically stacked television monitors downstairs, cartoon brunettes in ankle boots were performing what looked like tai chi in front of a waterfall, dolphins plunging around them.

From New York Times Sep. 20, 2012

"And she knew I preferred brunettes," Auguste adds.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton




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